Der Rebbe Redt Tzu Kinder — Nitzavim

okay welcome to our continuing class for parents and educators a class in the rebels sichus to the children of tsv hashem and we are now on parshas nitsavim the sikha that we're learning is on page 177 in the rebel secunder in the volume with the partisans of bhav midbar and so we're going to jump right in the title is kulham all of you together united as one we begin in them we always read the parsha that begins with the verse you plural are all standing together before hashem the name of the parasha is nitsavin which means standing and the whole phrase is atemnitzavim you are all standing hayim today today we know is interpreted as this day the big day the day of rosh hashanah kulham all of you united left naya malay ke come before hashem your god and we're going to talk about that what does it mean united what does it mean life before hashem your god we're going to talk about that the altar explains this verse in in like at the actual at the beginning of the maimurim and pasha's nits of him all of you comes to teach us that all the jews are standing together in front of hashem united as one now in the alt-rebels the explanation is uh is more lengthy the altareb explains that on rosh hashanah we all return to our source and in our source all of us even though down here we have different roles different positions in society different strengths different weaknesses but in our source we're all united as one he also talks about the interdependence of the jewish people that it's like a body it's like um he says the ten categories from the heads of the tribes to the water drawers and choppers of wood that those ten categories that are enumerated at the beginning of the parsha they correspond to the ten soul powers the chabad the the three intellectual and then the seven emotional and so just like a person has ten powers but really he's one person so the jewish people they have these ten let's say categories or or general uh groups of types of people archetypes of people but really they're all one like like one organism and just like in a single organism where you have different uh body parts perform different functions and each one does something that the other doesn't so there's really no better or worse because there's an interdependence they all need each other at any rate all of this is explained in the alt-rebels mimer at length but the rabbit sums it up very very simply for the children here let's let's look inside undas is the often unveising faryadren this is the open instruction the explicit instruction for every individual saying look both boys and girls that we have to know we have to stand together with love of our fellow jew vio claude godel matera love your fellow as yourself this is a major rule of the toyota that's one of our 12 sokkim b is to sign far insect the ener to the extent of actually being united we know that there is avas israel and there is israel there is loving each other and there is being united with each other and one really depends on the other what we're talking about here is not just that we love each other but a love that comes from acknowledging that we are truly one now this is for the children that ever doesn't get into the particulars the mechanics of of the interdependence or the the oneness that the altareb explains in i mean the rabbi mentions the mimer of the altareba so clearly that the source is relevant and and if one wanted a child were so motivated he could go look it up or ask his parent to to learn it with him and perhaps even we could say that if they'd ever mentioned the source maybe that i was expecting that if a child will ask that the parent would provide that as supplemental uh learning in addition to this but at any rate the the basic concept here is the idea of oneness being united not just loving each other but really that we are that we are one okay now oneness is a beautiful thing okay we all want to be one sure culchem all of you united together how do we do that how do we pull that off okay so let's continue here how do we unite each other together how do we become one that's the big question right is dust you have to read the rest of the verse it's it's by standing in front of hashem your god every child from tibet hashem is standing in front of the commander-in-chief hashem the god of armies what are we explaining here that ah is an expression of our relationship with hashem in other words this is the grand paradox of there really being no difference between being adam lahaved and being adam lemaking there's really no difference between our interpersonal relationships and our relationship with hashem why because the key to interpersonal relationships is our relationship with hashem so how do we achieve this unity with each other through our relationship with hashem when we know we're standing in front of hashem now we're united with each other and the rebbe elaborates on that as a metaphor let's let's look inside maddox vanessa vasquez huffin front lebanon hyped inferior then commander-in-chief if a regular soldier who's at the front and he's near the commander-in-chief he's he's near the leader so when he's in proximity to the leader he's going to conduct himself appropriately unachmed and even more so as men the megalith not only does he behave himself and conduct himself properly but he actually feels lucky he feels fortunate to be able to stand in front of the the leader so if that is so talking even about a regular soldier with a regular commander-in-chief is how much more so it is certainly so when we're talking about the king of all kings the holy one blessed be he as bishasman is that when you are aware of the fact you're conscious you remember that you're standing in front of hashem your god that summons in us that elicits from us are standing kulham together allah all united together to obey hashem um and as we mentioned not only do we behave ourselves but we feel fortunate so we are joyous about it yes or like one of our 12 sukim tells us of rejoice jewish people in your maker so we are united and we are feeling fortunate we're feeling very proud that we have this ability to serve hashem and automatically that puts us in a state of being interdependent with each other and feeling united over a common cause so the great secret uh key to getting along with each other is that awareness of hashem okay now let's continue to the next section of the circle a little bit different idea here now as the matara in chief it continues and says later in the parsha that the reason we all got together to stand in front of hashem is in order to make a covenant an agreement to make an eternal agreement with the commander in chief so now that we're united before hashem the question is okay what do we do with this we have this incredible opportunity where we're united we're all feeling aware of the fact that we're in front of hashem or maybe i should say that the opposite we're feeling aware that we're in front of hashem therefore we're feeling united with each other okay so there's this real uh opportunity here what do we do with that energy ah at that moment we make a covenant a permanent agreement and and explains what this means for the child landing here is the teaching for jewish children from this bishop you know the the organization meaning hashem's actual army obviously you know it's nice to have the you know the the membership cards and the magazines and the but we're talking about actually belonging to hashem's army i mean the truth is the two are synonymous about it this way there was always a service hashem or at least since they took eden out of my time there long before it had a formal name as a as a youth club but uh when you joined sivis hashem when you're part of hashem's army that's not something you do for a phase of life or maybe you think maybe it's just something you do as a child you know oh yeah i used to be in civilization what are you talking about it used to be when you joined hashem it's for life commander in chief to fulfill all of the instructions of the commander-in-chief fundamentally from hashem the fraternity and mitchells especially when it comes to learning doing mitzvos and not only does being interviewed hashem meaning doing what hashem wants but doing it joyfully in them why are we so happy because we think about we meditate on the fact we have this great fortune we're very lucky to be able to stand in front of hashem who created us imagine that opportunity that hashem who made you the one who made you you're able to do something that continues to keep our relationship with him going and it's not just a one-way relationship where he made us no we're actually able to give back we're actually able to do something for him amazing things so we feel so fortunate and therefore we're very happy um and you know why we're really happy because then we think how happy hashem is that hashem feels so fortunate and lucky to have such soldiers in his army so before we said yes israel esau which is from one of our twelve sukim that the jews rejoice in hashem here we say yes hashem hashem rejoices in his creations so we're happy that we get to serve him he's happy that we're serving him everybody's happy this is such a wonderful thing so being a lifetime member a member for life in civ hashem it's not like a scary thing it's not like a pressure thing it's like it's a beautiful thing we're so happy and we feel so lucky we feel so fortunate okay next section um and when we renew and strengthen the connection with hashem that the connection should be stronger and more joyful and more vital more alive okay all of those things are important stronger more joyful more alive so when we renew the connection let's just retrace where we've been from the beginning of the sith first thing is unity where do we get unity from from standing before hashem when you realize that hashem is is watching you and waiting for you to do your job so when you have that sense of awe of service before hashem that unites you with all the other members of hashem okay then the next thing we said was that the purpose of uniting before hashem was to make a commitment a lifetime commitment that we are going to serve him always okay and that we're joyful about that opportunity to be his to be in his army and now what do we say that when we recommit when we renew the commitment what happens to rosh hashanah this is the appropriate preparation for rosh hashanah then men named what happens on rosh hashanah we crown hashem as king we crown him as king and redeemer of the jews and of the entire world so the proper way to get ready for submitting to hashem's authority and say we want him to be king over us and to redeem us and to be king over the whole world and to redeem the entire world how do you prepare for that how do you prepare for that for the coronation prepare for it by what we just said by renewing the commitment and how i'm tracing backwards through this how do we renew the commitment by uniting and how do we unite by being aware of the fact that we're so fortunate to stand in front of him and from being king of us meaning our authority not just he tells us what to do he bosses us around no a king who really takes care of us so he's our king and our redeemer er elized ice them gansun yiddish and folk in there he redeems the entire jewish people through the true redemption through meshiach so here we have a preparation for rosh hashanah what is the mission coronation coronation means we want hashem to be the authority we submit to his authority joyfully and gratefully and we ask him to take care of us and to redeem us and to redeem the whole world how do we do that by renewing refreshing our commitment to him how do we renew and refresh our commitment to him we join together how do we join together by being aware that we're standing in front of him that's basically the sick of backwards you want to hear a joke backwards okay start laughing okay you know you know the trick about how to win a maze right i'm sure everyone figured this out when they were a kid mazes are really tough but if you go from the from the end to the beginning then it's much easier so that was the circle backwards anyways now we know the formula we reverse engineered it we know exactly what we need to be doing let's all prepare and for sure we're all going to have a good sweet happy healthy new year